2 Minute Talk Tips

    2-Minute Tip: Believe Them   When your audience members tell you that you did a good job, believe them.   In our zeal to be the best we can be, many speakers have an inaccurate and often negative view of our own performances. Often we see how it could have been better. Or we notice a mistake no one in the audience did. We can obsess over those "failures" no one else saw. But it's not about us.   It's about the audience. When audience members tell you that you did a good job, take their word for it. Respect their opinion. Believe them.     Post Tip Discussion: 8 Questions to Ask After Your Talk   There are stories we tell ourselves that keep us small. -- Emma Gibbs-Ng Lyn Henderson's Inside Knowledge Podcast   Evaluating our performance after a presentation is good, but simply asking, "How was I?" is not good enough. It makes it all about us again and doesn't give us the actionable data we need to get better. Instead, we ought to ask these 8 questions after a talk:    How was the ti